Interpreting Resolutions

    The most intimidating part of debating for the first time tends to be figuring out how to start your speech. This is especially intimidating if you are the very first speaker in a debate and have never debated before. Fortunately, there are some...

Criteria

Let’s imagine a debate round: the resolution is that nuclear energy is better than renewable energy. The affirmative argues that nuclear energy is the least expensive energy in the world. The negative argues that renewable energy is the safest energy in the world....

Stock Issues

If you were to study an instrument by hiring a musician to give you private lessons, you would find that each instructor has their own personal approach to learning music. Learning to debate in front of an audience is similar. No two debate coaches emphasize the same...

Advanced Affirmatives

One of the ways that you can advance your skill set when you’re debating on the affirmative side of the topic is bringing an understanding of morality. There’s an awesome historical reference, a guy named Emmanuel Levinas, and what Levinas, who says ethics...

Recording Speeches

There has been a rapid and significant increase in the amount of technology designed for human communication over the last twenty years, and the importance of video communication in particular has only increased since the pandemic. People are going to have to adapt to...
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